704                              Laws of Maryland                        Ch. 306

tion or correctional center, the jail or other such place does not meet
the minimum standards as heretofore promulgated, copies of the
report and recommendations shall be forwarded to the governing
body of the political subdivision or subdivisions and the State's
attorney and circuit court judges for the county or counties or Balti-
more City. In the event that such deficiencies are not substantially
corrected within 180 days so that the said regional detention and
correctional center, jail or other place of detention meets suitable
standards, the officer shall order such place closed and all prisoners
therein shall be transferred to and shall be accepted in a suitable
place of detention in the opinion of the Department of Correction
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES with the expenses therein to be paid
by the governing body of the political subdivision or subdivisions,
as the case may be [; except that in Baltimore City the requirement
for transfer of prisoners shall not be applicable]. Should a regional
detention and correctional center be closed and the prisoners con-
fined therein transferred to a suitable place of detention upon said
order of the Department of [Correction] Correctional Services, the
expenses thereof shall be divided and paid, in equal amounts, by the
governing body of the political subdivisions maintaining, operating
or participating in said regional detention and correctional center.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 306
(Senate Bill 697)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 4 and
6 (a) of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Re-
placement Volume), title "Marriages," to substitute the designa-
tion "skin complexion" for DELETE the designation "color" in
marriage licenses.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 4 and 6 (a) of Article 62 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1968 Replacement Volume), title "Marriages," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

4.

No person within this State shall be joined in marriage until
a license shall have been obtained from the clerk of the circuit
court for the county in which the marriage is to be performed,
or if in Baltimore City, from the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas.

The license required by this article shall be in the following form,

to wit: State of Maryland and County of................. To any minister

of the Gospel, or other officer or person authorized by the laws of
the State to solemnize marriage. You are hereby authorized to join